Intel D975XBX2 (i975X) Bad Axe 2 Motherboard Pictures
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Intel D975XBX2 (i975X) Bad Axe 2 Motherboard Pictures
Nearly one year ago I posted some of the first pictures of Intel D975XBX motherboard on the internet and here I go again with Bad Axe 2. The Intel D975XBX motherboard features numerous changes and I'll show some of them here in the following pictures.
Here is a picture an Intel D975XBX Revision 305 motherboard (on the right) sitting news to an Intel D975XBX2 Revision 303 motherboard (on the left)
Power Button (Where is the Reset Button?):
The Intel D975XBX2 features spots for both power and reset buttons, but only the power button made it to final production.
The new Marvell SATA RAID Controller:
New on the Bad Axe 2 is the Marvell 88SE6145 ATA/SATA Controller and gone is the old Silicon Image Controller.
One New Solid capacitor:
Right next to the primary PCIe slot Intel has replaced a single electrolyte based capacitor with the new solid capacitor as seen above.
In the above picture Bad Axe 2 is sitting on top and you can see that Intel added a single electrolyte based capacitor that was not used on the original Intel D975XBX motherboard.
The new Silego clock generator:
Gone is the ICS clockgen and on the D975XBX2 is the Silego SLG505YC56DT clock generator.
As you can see the Intel D975XBX2 motherboard has many changes done to the board for it to support 1333MHz FSB processors and as you can tell has enthusiast friendly features like the power button. Hope you like this pictures and be sure to post your thoughts. These are all pre-production pictures of the Bad Axe 2 motherboard and were taken at IDF of the Revision 303 board. We saw a couple revision 304 boards at IDF also, so who knows what will be the first retail board.
Here is a picture an Intel D975XBX Revision 305 motherboard (on the right) sitting news to an Intel D975XBX2 Revision 303 motherboard (on the left)
Power Button (Where is the Reset Button?):
The Intel D975XBX2 features spots for both power and reset buttons, but only the power button made it to final production.
The new Marvell SATA RAID Controller:
New on the Bad Axe 2 is the Marvell 88SE6145 ATA/SATA Controller and gone is the old Silicon Image Controller.
One New Solid capacitor:
Right next to the primary PCIe slot Intel has replaced a single electrolyte based capacitor with the new solid capacitor as seen above.
In the above picture Bad Axe 2 is sitting on top and you can see that Intel added a single electrolyte based capacitor that was not used on the original Intel D975XBX motherboard.
The new Silego clock generator:
Gone is the ICS clockgen and on the D975XBX2 is the Silego SLG505YC56DT clock generator.
As you can see the Intel D975XBX2 motherboard has many changes done to the board for it to support 1333MHz FSB processors and as you can tell has enthusiast friendly features like the power button. Hope you like this pictures and be sure to post your thoughts. These are all pre-production pictures of the Bad Axe 2 motherboard and were taken at IDF of the Revision 303 board. We saw a couple revision 304 boards at IDF also, so who knows what will be the first retail board.
Those are some great pics. I've seen some IDT clockgens out there too...
love the power switch.
Any numbers on the marvel controller?
there's more caoacitor changes in the pci-e area too..presumable for the audio, and one between pci-e1 and pci-e2.
love the power switch.
Any numbers on the marvel controller?
there's more caoacitor changes in the pci-e area too..presumable for the audio, and one between pci-e1 and pci-e2.
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Im pretty much an AMD guy so my knowledge of modern Intel Tech is very limited but with Core2Duo spanking AMD's offerings I need a refresher lol. Are those 3 PCI-e x16 slots? and if so are all 3 capable of x16 speeds? and if so why? lol Also those blue flame HS's on the MOSFETS are awesome. Still Intel needs to come up with an easier to remember name for their mobo than "Intel D975XBX Revision 305" lol
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Its called Bad Axe 2 can you remember that?HONkUS wrote:Im pretty much an AMD guy so my knowledge of modern Intel Tech is very limited but with Core2Duo spanking AMD's offerings I need a refresher lol. Are those 3 PCI-e x16 slots? and if so are all 3 capable of x16 speeds? and if so why? lol Also those blue flame HS's on the MOSFETS are awesome. Still Intel needs to come up with an easier to remember name for their mobo than "Intel D975XBX Revision 305" lol
3 PCI-E Slots well two are for SLI (unofficially) or Crossfire and the third is for another card to handle the physics. ATI was pushing 3 Slots so that two cards could be crossfired and the third would handle physics negating the need for a physics only card. They are saying that a GPU can handle it fine.
So, INtel 965= ATI Crossfire Physics platform(ASUS P5B Deluxe).
975XBX2=ATI Crossfire Physics + Graphics platform?
975XBX2=ATI Crossfire Physics + Graphics platform?
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